SonyAlpharumors reports about a new entry level (A5?) Full frame camera that could cost 799 Euro only. It’s not science fiction. There is also a Sony patent (image on top) showing the cam.
Leicarumors reports about a new Full Frame Monocrhome camera with 24MP CMOS sensor coming in February
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Wow, a full frame rangefinder model at a bargain price. But I guess it will lag in af, alas…
It would be wonderful if Sony issued an A5. The price would certainly be attractive at $800. Want to see how quickly I can whip out my wallet to buy new gear? I wouldn’t mind paying $1000 for a body only if it included a little IBIS and the A6000’s AF system. If they threw in an A5r with the 36mpixel sensor, $1500 would simply fly out of my hands into Sony’s.
I also prefer this form factor to that of a7. I’d love to see a very fast af body with the 36mp sensor, but I guess this will be the rumored a9.
It’s a very exciting prospect, but it would be soooo much more appealing with the 36mpixel sensor which blows m43 out of the water, or the ultra low light sensor of the a7s. I hope they don’t strip down expert controls too much.
Lol
Insecure Sony fans. Always upset m43 is around. Couldn’t crush it with aps-c, now they think FF is it this time. They make the same mistake regarding Canikon DSLRs and forget great, long-term support is key. That requires work and patience, but they’d rather pin their hope on the next gimmick.
When will you FF people understand that the lenses will always be huge compared to m43 equivalents.
This is indeed exciting but with the current lens selection this amounts to a full-frame compact.
This would be great. I would love to have such small camera for traveling (with some small lenses, of which Sony could have more) or for some serious photography, for example with an adapter to A mount and some serious lenses.
I’m only interested in the Monochrom. That Sony will simply be one of the 4/5 models that big S will release in 2015..
FF Sony would be great if it was like a6000 shape but scaled up. Must have viewfinder built in and flash and hot shoe to be No 1.
No need at all.
Take example a Olympus PEN E-PM2 and those are perfect by body size for small size. Then get a Olympus VF-4 viewfinder and the camera turns even better than most DSLR cameras because you gain a height to viewfinder so your nose doesn’t touch camera, you get a tilting viewfinder (0-90°) that is awesome in street and portrait photography because it makes you stealthy, and you have a high resolution and vivid EVF.
Of course you have a hotshoe but you don’t need a EVF and flash to be used same time as any serious photographer has the external flash in the first place. But there comes the trick where Olympus doesn’t manage to work, you need the inbuild RF trigger.
Why I would say every camera manufacturer should build and follow a standard that includes a RF TR/RX functionality and is compatible with each other flashes with TTL etc.
I can understand Sony wanting to make their FF bodies available to more people considering some may have been excluded with the A7 price tag. However, will an extensive library of excellent quality and affordable FF lenses be made available? The current F mount (and for that matter E mount) affordable/quality collection is fairly ‘thin’.